A Sampling of Clips for 
April 10 ^th, 2007

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Free Markets Need Free People
Wall Street Journal, Opinion, April 10 -- If there is one point of consensus in the fraught politics of immigration, it is that illegal immigration is bad. And yet, from a purely economic perspective, illegal immigration is arguably preferable to legal immigration. Because Congress and the president refuse to see this, further reform this year could make a bad situation worse. (Written by Gordon Hanson, director of the Center on Pacific Economies at UCSD) More

Gap Narrows Between Male, Female Births
ABC News, April 10 -- A new study has renewed the debate among public health experts over figures that seem to show a gradual but persistent decrease in the ratio between the birth of baby boys and baby girls. (Quotes Christopher Wills, professor of ecology, behavior and evolutionary biology at UCSD) More

A Long View of Layoffs
Columbia Journalism Review, Opinion, April 2007 -- The present wave of cost- cutting, job-eliminating, and bureau-closing is just one reason journalism is widely believed to be an industry in crisis. But a pair of university studies concerning the profession’s past and future may slightly temper fears of its imminent demise. (Co-authored by Michael Schudson, who teaches at Columbia's Graduate School of Journalism and in UCSD’s Department of Communication) More

Noted Percussionist
Is Chosen to Lead La Jolla Ensemble
San Diego Union-Tribune, April 10 – Internationally acclaimed percussionist and UCSD faculty member Steven Schick has been appointed music director of the La Jolla Symphony and Chorus, San Diego's largest and oldest community orchestra and chorus. Schick's appointment is the culmination of a nearly two-year search for a successor to Harvey Sollberger, who retired. More

Local Scientists Taking
the Lead in Global Warming Research
KPBS, April 10 -- Global warming has been a popular topic of conversation recently. But researchers at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography have been talking about it for more than 50 years. The UCSD marine laboratory is recognized for sounding early alarm bells about greenhouse gases warming the planet. KPBS Environmental Reporter Ed Joyce introduces us to three Scripps scientists playing lead roles in global warming research. More

New Review Shows Many Young
Californians Quit Smoking Tobacco
KPBS, April 10 -- A new review of California's Tobacco Control Program finds young adults in the state are kicking the habit in record numbers. The UCSD study examines smoking cessation rates in the decade before the program started in 1989, and compares them with what happened during the 90’s. The study finds after the Tobacco Control Program began, smokers ages 20 to 34 increased their rate of quitting by 50 percent. More

Mercer, Jones Begin New Era
The Macon Telegraph, April 10 -- The Mercer women's basketball team has had a cloud hanging over it since August. On Monday, the clouds went away when Mercer announced that Janell Jones would be the next women's head coach in a news conference. Jones was selected from more than 100 applicants. Jones, who takes over the position immediately, has spent the past two seasons coaching at UCSD. More

La Jolla Playhouse Gets New Artistic Director
San Diego Union-Tribune, April 10 -- A versatile New York-based stage director, Christopher Ashley, will become the artistic director of La Jolla Playhouse this fall, Playhouse board chairman Ralph Bryan will announce today. Ashley, 42, will succeed two-time Tony winner Des McAnuff who revived the Playhouse in 1983. With the completion of a $46 million capital and construction campaign, the Playhouse now has three mainstage theaters on the UCSD campus. More

The Worse for Wear
San Diego Union-Tribune, April 10 -- Strutting around in mile-high stilettos, squeezing into second-skin pants or carrying a handbag the size of a Samsonite suiter may make you appear stylish, but the damage these chic pieces do to your body over time ain't pretty. (Quotes Dr. Douglas Chang, an orthopedic surgeon at UCSD) More